LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A joint operation of security agencies, including National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Saturday, stormed semi-Sambisa, a den of criminal gan in Yola, and arrested fifty two drug peddlers. Yakubu Kibo, Adamawa State NDLEA Commander, confirmed the arrest and paraded the suspects Sunday afternoon, saying, “a joint operation comprising NDLEA, Army,…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Cuban government announced Friday that it was launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis. Commerce Minister Betsy Diaz Velazquez told the state-run Cuban News Agency that various forms of rationing would be employed in order to deal…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government said, the second attack on Christians in two weeks in a nation increasingly overrun by jihadists. Congregants were leaving church around 9 a.m. (0900 GMT) in the town of Dablo in the Central North…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday burst into celebration after the judgement of Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal on Governor Gboyega Oyetola. The supporters at the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja jumped for joy and started jubilating at the end of the court proceedings. Delivering the lead judgement…
e LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A resolution has been made by the House of Representatives to probe allegations of fraud in the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) in the Niger Delta. To that end, an ad hoc committee has been set up by the House, and it is expected that the committee reports back to the House…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oba of Benin has placed a temporary ban on the wearing of beads in his kingdom as part of the rituals for the celebration of a festival in his kingdom. This is coming few months after a Chief in Benin, identified as Chief Dr. Oguigo, was humiliated and labelled an enemy…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the labour sector, following the refusal of Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to inaugurate the board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) assumed a new dimension on Wednesday when thugs allegedly hired by the minister came hard on some labour leaders, beating them black and…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated the Governor of the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for another term, according to a letter by the president to the Senate, which was read at the red chamber Thursday. This is a major feat by Emefiele, who is helping Buhari revive Nigeria’s agricultural…